Tiffany Cross is mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore.
Discussing the loss of her weekend show, The Daily Beast‘ reports that Cross claims she had “drawn the ire of white conservatives,” a not-so-subtle dig at never Trumper Joe Scarborough:
“There's an unspoken rule that you're not supposed to disagree with Joe, and I didn't get that memo,” Cross said.
“It was a battle to cover things that I wanted to talk about. The network's philosophy was Trump, Trump, Trump. They wanted me to be part of the echo chamber,” she declared. “I wanted to cover things like inhumane treatment in prisons, that's something that disproportionately impacts my community. Mental health among Black men, the erasure of Afro-Latinos in the Latino community, land battles of the indigenous, Native Americans trying to get their family artifacts back from museums right here in America. Black farmers, reaching Latino voters, things like that.”
Saying she was “spoken to in the most condescending ways” during her battles with network execs, Cross added that she was confused as to why they wanted her to “use the same recycled faces you see all the time” when she routinely had the highest-rated weekend show on MSNBC.
Despite repeated warnings from executives, Cross continued to deliver searing commentary about conservatives after drawing the ire of ex-Fox News personality Tucker Carlson which she claims further irked network executives.
Specifically, she noted that she snarkily called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “Justice Pubic Hair on My Coke Can.” Additionally, during an infamous sit-down with Charlamagne tha God in the fall of 2022, Cross referred to Florida as the “dick” of America and that it should be “castrated,” taking aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' policies.
Cross said those comments are likely what broke the camel's back.
“After that show… that morning, I got a call from the president of the network saying they were not going to be renewing my contract, which was up in a month, and that my viewers would not even be given the courtesy or the respect of me not being able to sign off or have a final show,” she declared.
“When that happens, it suggests to other people in the industry that this person is so unhireable that we could not trust her with a live mic,” Cross continued. “The firing was very abrupt, and it was very intentional to my audience, my viewers, that you are not the type of viewers that the company cares about. I was devastated when my show was canceled. I was so sad.”
